Reblogged from Jim Webster:
One of the problems I have is that I am a native English speaker. I unaffectedly speak the language like a native. This isn’t an entirely good thing. Many years ago I was youth hostelling around the Outer Hebrides and came across a German lad of my own age. In his penultimate school year, he and his parents had discussed the idea of him attending a summer school in England. The idea was that he would both learn English, and ideally learn some geology, because that was one of his interests.
So they looked for summer schools and discovered that Aberystwyth University had something very suitable. Now his mother was no fool. She knew that Aberystwyth (is it wrong that I’m inordinately proud of being able to spell that correctly without having to look it up.) was in Wales. So she phoned them to discuss the matter. The staff could understand her concerns and assured her that not only would the course be taught in English, but at the summer school most of the students would also be English.
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Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
A lovely share, Sue.
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Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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🙂
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A good laugh for this one!
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I confess I do find the English language pretty fascinating, especially the language actually spoken 🙂
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Always interesting, Jim. And usually laced with humour… x
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where would we be without the humour 🙂
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Wonderful! I’m a southerner stranded in the frozen north, still struggling with the flat vowels…
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I’ll swap…I’m a northerner in exile in the south 😉
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I shall leave you two to sort each other out then 🙂
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😀
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